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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 6, 2011

  Uncertain World: Russia’s WTO entry as the end of the post-Soviet era

By Fyodor Lukyanov:   Russia may join the World Trade Organization this year, bringing to a close an 18 year accession process. With each new year, the claim that “we will join the WTO by year-end” came to sound more and more like that famous Jewish...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 1, 2011

  The good, the bad and the in between

By David Roberts     Can an authoritarian, centrally planned regime be ousted and replaced by a democratic one, with a free market but regulated economy? Yes, obviously. There are degrees to everything, but it takes sensible, even...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 4, 2011

  Deeper Than Oil: The Resurrection of Lenin

By Marc Bennetts:   All over Russia, from Communist Party rallies to tourist souvenir shops, there are banners bearing the Soviet-era slogan “Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives, Lenin Will Live”. This was no mere Communist rallying cry – some of those guys were...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 25, 2010

  NATO, world gendarme

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) Many people feel sickened on hearing the name of that organization. On Friday, November 19, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal, the 28 members of that bellicose institution engendered by the United States, decided to create what they cynically...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 28, 2010

  Fidel and Cuban scientists discuss nuclear danger

IMMERSED in his incessant battle to inform the world of the danger of a nuclear war and to succeed in persuading President Obama not to pull the trigger, Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz met on Monday, August 23 with Cuban scientists to talk about nuclear weapons and the danger of a nuclear...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 27, 2009

  Cubans fear hard times ahead, impatient for change

By Marc Frank: HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cubans are bracing for hard times in 2010 as President Raul Castro slashes imports and cuts government spending to get Cuba out of crisis -- and they are growing impatient with the slow pace of economic reform. Hurricanes, the global recession, US...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 8, 2009

  Israeli Government Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews

By Jonathan Cook, AlterNet: The Israeli government has launched a television and Internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews. The advertisements, employing what the Israeli media described as...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 5, 2009

  Cuba hails 'victory' on OAS vote, declines to rejoin

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) -- The Cuban government on Thursday declined to return to the Organization of American States (OAS), despite hailing a landmark decision to lift the body's 47-year ban on Havana as a "major victory." The OAS vote is "a major victory for Latin America and the Caribbean and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 22, 2009

  The shameful history of the OAS (Part 1)

• Emergence and development of the Organization of American States • Its role in the region • Inter-American complicity in U.S. aggression against the Cuban people • Raul Roa’s battle for dignity • The OAS must be dismantled as the only liberating option for today • Cuba...... [view]

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Posted On:  Apr 12, 2009

  Nazi camps: Hell on earth

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - On April 9, 1945, the inmates of the Buchenwald death camp near Weimar, Germany, sent a radio message to inform the Allies that the Nazis were forcing them to evacuate the camp, and to request assistance. After they received promises...... [view]

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